What is the PoliticsNationwide.com network?
Introduction
The PoliticsNationwide.com network - coming live on the internet soon - is comprised of multiple hundreds of Democratic, Republican and other top-level .com, .net and .org generic political urls and web addresses being designed to be devoted to comprehensive, current, accurate, fair and balanced presentations of politics, public policy and government, at the federal, state, county and municipal levels throughout the United States of America.
Our mission is to enable any citizen who has wired and wireless access to the Internet to find persons, candidates, causes, campaigns, associations, organizations, parties, groups, political action committees, entities, agencies, departments, think-tanks, academic institutions, consultants, fundraisers and lobbyists that are directly or indirectly involved in politics, public policy and government anywhere in the United States of America, and empower each to do business online with each other.
Philosophy
We believe this mission for politics, public policy and government on the internet can best be accomplished:
- By securing and owning multiple hundreds of simple top-level generic .com, .net and .org Democratic, Republican and other urls and web addresses, like www.searchcongress.com, www.houserepublicans.com, www.housedemocrats.com, www.searchdemocrats.com, www.searchrepublicans.com, etc., etc., etc., so that internet users are more likely to find the political, public policy and government information they need and want by:
- typing simple generic Democratic, Republican and other political domain names in to the address line on their web browsers; or
- finding hundreds of the PoliticsNationwide.com network links to simple generic political, public policy and government terms, definitions, web pages and websites when using search engines to look for political, public policy and government information; and
- delivering internet users who visit a PoliticsNationwide.com network url and web address to the political, public policy and government information they seek.
- By pledging to:
- be thorough and constant in our search for including opposing views;
- avoid all and any conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest wherever and whenever possible; and
- make every reasonable effort to be free of any obligation to any person, group, organization, party, special interest and/or authority directly and/or indirectly involved in the influence of, and/or the formulation and/or execution of, political, public and government policies, at any level of government and political activity throughout the United States of America.
Click here to read the PoliticsNationwide.com strict Standards & Ethics policy.
The Market
The U.S. Census Bureau's most recent census of governments in the United States reports that there are more than 87,000 governmental units in the country. These include agencies and departments of federal, state, municipal, county and special-district governments throughout the nation. These do not include offices occupied by officials who are elected by voters to represent and serve them in their governments at every level.
Today at the federal level of government in the United States there are 537 elected officials from among the 50 states only, including the President, Vice President, 100 Members of the United States Senate and 435 Members of the United States House of Representatives. While the incumbent President and Vice President run for election and re-election together on a ticket, their elected positions are challenged every four years by contenders who compete, first, for the opposition political parties nominations for the office of President, and then in a general election. Likewise, one-third of the Members of the United States Senate is elected every second year in a competitive contest for their offices among contenders who compete in primaries and general elections and are residents of those respective states. And, every two years all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives must be filled by voters casting ballots, in primary and general elections, for contenders competing for that office in their respective districts.Additionally, among all the states in the Union there are 50 elected Governors and more than 40 elected Lieutenant Governors, more than 300 officials elected statewide in their respective states, and more than 7,000 elected state legislators. Elections for these state-based offices sometimes have multiple contenders competing in primary and general election campaigns, and occur on either a two-year or four-year electoral cycle. Some but not all of the Lieutenant Governors run for election separately from the Governor and not with the Governor on a joint ticket.
Likewise, there are more than 3,000 county governments and more than 19,000 municipal governments, excluding townships and villages. Executive power for each of these governmental units is typically held by an elected chief executive and other elected and appointed individuals, while legislative matters are typically governed by elected councils and elected boards of supervisors, which typically vary in membership from 5 to 40 or more members. Election to each of these executive positions as well as council and supervisorial positions is often sought by many contestants, competing in primary and general election campaigns, typically in either two-year and/or four-year election cycles.
Click here to find the U.S. Census Bureau's 2002 Census of Governments.
Furthermore, there are more than 7,600 national-based and more than 7,400 state-based trade and professional associations with executive leaderships that exist, in part, to affect the enactment and outcomes of national, state and local political and public policy issues important to their memberships. These national and state-based trade and professional association leaderships often help to elect candidates to office who are in agreement with their political and public policy beliefs, while seeking to oppose candidates who do not agree with them. Likewise, as of January 1, 2003, there are more than 4,000 Political Action Committees (PACs) registered with the Federal Elections Commission, and more than 30,000 Political Action Committees (PACs) registered with authorities who provide legal oversight and enforcement of laws, rules and regulations for elections and political activities in the 50 states.
Throughout the United States there are also hundreds of think-tanks and academic institutions which have a focus on politics, public policy and government; hundreds of state and thousands of county political party official and auxiliary organizations; as well as thousands of fundraisers, consultants and lobbyists who have professional work that is focused primarily on politics, public policy and government.
